One day an out-of-work mime(啞劇演員)is visiting a zoo and attempts to earn some money as a performer. As soon as he starts to draw the crowd, a zoo keeper grabs him and drags him into his office. The zoo keeper explains to the mime that the zoo’s most popular attraction, a gorilla, died suddenly and the keeper fears that the attendance at the zoo will fall off. He offers the mime a job to dress up as the gorilla until they can get another one. The mime accepts.

So the next morning the mime puts on the gorilla suit and enters the cage before the crowd comes. He discovers that it’s a great job. He can sleep when he wants to, play and make fun of people and he draws bigger crowds than he ever did as a mime. However, eventually the crowds get tired of him and he doesn’t like just swinging on wires any longer. He begins to notice that the people are paying more attention to the lion in the cage next to his.

Not wanting to lose the attention of his audience, he climbs to the top of his cage, crawls across a partition(隔開物), and dangles(懸蕩) from the top of the lion’s cage. Of course, this makes the lion furious, but the crowd loves it. At the end of the day the zoo keeper comes and gives the mime a raise for being such a good attraction. Well, this goes on for some time, the mime keeps laughing at the lion, the crowds grow larger, and his salary keeps going up.

Then one terrible day when he is dangling over the furious lion he slips and falls. The mime is terrified. The lion gathers its strength and prepares to pounce(猛撲). The mime is so scared that he begins to run round and round in the cage with the lion close behind. Finally, the mime starts screaming and yelling, "Help me! Help me!", but the lion is quick and pounces. The mime soon finds himself lying on his back looking up at the angry lion and the lion says, "Shut up, you idiot! Do you want to get us both fired?"

1.The mime goes to the zoo in order to 　　　.

A. perform to make some money

B. take part in an interview

C. look for a better job as a worker in the zoo

D. help the zoo keeper to draw more visitors

2.The mime doesn’t like his job any longer probably because 　　　.

A. he can’t have enough sleep every day

B. the visitors throw something at him

C. people are less interested in his performance

D. he wants to stay with the lion in the cage

3.The underlined word "furious" (in Paragraph 3) means "　　　".

A. happy B. angry

C. frightened D. satisfied

4.According to the passage, we can know that 　　　.

A. the lion wants to catch hold of the mime

B. both the lion and the mime will be killed

C. another employer dresses up as the lion

D. the zoo keeper will fire both of them

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